Hans Beat Wieland

Hans Beat Wieland

Hans Beat (us) Wieland (born June 11, 1867 in Gallusberg near Mörschwil , † August 23, 1945 in Kriens ) was a Swiss landscape painter .

Life

After the early death of his father, the engineer Richard Ludwig Wieland (1826–1868), Hans Beat Wieland grew up in Basel . He broke off attending the secondary school there in 1883 and switched to the trade school . He then took lessons at the Fritz Schiders drawing school . This was followed by a visit to the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich , the private art school Paul Nauens and finally in 1887 the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where Nikolaus Gysis , Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger were his teachers. After exhibiting his first picture in 1891, he and Zeno Diemer painted a large panorama of the Tyrolean Alps for the 1893 World Exhibition in Chicago on behalf of the Austrian Tourist Association. In 1894 Wieland joined the Munich Secession .

Postcard for Bades polar cruise with the SS Oihonna (1903)

In 1896 he took part in a cruise to Spitzbergen organized by Wilhelm Bade . On behalf of the Leipziger Illustrierte , he was supposed to follow Salomon August Andrée's start of his balloon flight to the North Pole as a "drawing reporter" . When Andrée postponed the start to the summer of 1897, Wieland traveled again with Bade to Danskøya . The fruit of these two journeys was the first significant group of works with documentary paintings and watercolors of the Norwegian coast and the Arctic landscape of Svalbard. Wieland also designed postcards for Bade that were sold on his cruises.

In 1898 Wieland married his artist colleague Elsa Henkell, the daughter of Rudolf Henkell (1843–1912), the owner of the Henkell & Co sparkling wine cellar , and lived with her in Munich. Two years later they moved to Eching am Ammersee , where they built a Norwegian- style country house with a sod roof on Kaagangerstraße . Three children were born to the couple: Klaus Peter Karl (1904–1960), Franka Beata Emilie (1905–1961) and Richard Rudolf (* 1907).

Signed postcard depicting war (1916)

In 1904 Wieland was one of the founders of the Munich Watercolor Artists' Association around Rudolf Köselitz . A year later he was elected to the Federal Art Commission . In 1906 his name can be found in the membership directory of the German Association of Artists . With his atmospheric depictions of landscapes, he has now achieved general recognition. During the First World War he painted and drew as a war painter for the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter on behalf of the Vienna Army Museum in the Italian, Montenegrin and Romanian theater of war. In 1918 he returned to Switzerland and settled with his family in Schwyz , but occasionally also worked on Lake Ammersee , where his country house was still used as a holiday home. In Schwyz, he bought the Acherhof , which he had renovated and added a new building. From 1930 he lived in Kriens. In Switzerland, Wieland created station frescos in Bern, Basel, Geneva and Lucerne, two of which can be seen today in Göschenen station .

literature

• Wieland, Hans Beatus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 532 .
• Author: Wieland, Hans Beat . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 129 .
• Tapan Bhattacharya: Wieland, Hans Beat. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Hans von Matt : Hans Beat Wieland. Life and work 1867–1945 . ABC-Verlag, Zurich 1977
• Dominik Heitz: On the front line with the troops. Grew up in Basel: The war painter Hans Beat Wieland in the service of Austria , in: Basler Zeitung , print edition of August 12, 2014, p. 12
• Sandra Walser: On the Nordlandfahrt - 1896 from Hamburg to Spitzbergen . NZZ Libro, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-03810-367-7 .

Fonts

• Willy Lang: Hans Beat Wieland. In: Schweizer Illustrierte . Volume 4, 1909, pp. 2-12.

Web links

Commons : Hans Beat Wieland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Beat Wieland in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Hans Beat Wieland  in the German Digital Library
• Isabelle Chappuis: Wieland, Hans Beat. In: Sikart

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Excerpt from the Wieland tribe, descendants of Joh. Heinrich Wieland and Maria Magd. Schweighauser 1758 ff (PDF file; 30 kB), accessed on December 15, 2012
2. ↑ Hans Wieland in the matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on December 15, 2012
3. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of the War Picture Gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 2
4. ↑ Gerald Modlinger: The beginning of the end . In: Augsburger Allgemeine on September 26, 2011, accessed on February 9, 2016.
5. ↑ sailing chronicle of Rolinghi , Memoirs of Roland "Rolinghi" Neuberger, accessed on February 9, 2016
6. ↑ Excerpt from descriptors from the online archive catalog of the Basel-Stadt State Archives, accessed on February 9, 2016.
7. ↑ Die Kunst für Alle , Issue 19 of July 1, 1904, p. 460 (digitized version)
8. ↑ s. Wieland, Hans Beatus, painter, Munich-Schwabing, Karl-Theodorstr. 14a , in the list of members in the catalog of the 3rd German Artists Association , Weimar 1906. P. 59 online (accessed on March 22, 2017)
9. ↑ Dominik Heitz: On the front line with the troops. Grew up in Basel: the war painter Hans Beat Wieland in the service of Austria . In: Basler Zeitung , print edition of August 12, 2014, p. 12.
10. ↑ Historical information about the Acher house in Schwyz , brochure on acherhof.ch, approx. 2017 (accessed on April 28, 2019).